What are the best solutions for extending Wi-Fi range in a big, old house with thick walls? I rent, so I'd rather avoid adding any cables.
What are the best solutions for extending Wi-Fi range in a big, old house with thick walls? I rent, so I'd rather avoid adding any cables.
I have an extender already, but it's a cheap one and bandwidth sucks. Any success stories?
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I've personally had very good results with Ubiquiti Unifi kit. It's business grade, so not cheap, but highly effective.
The access points prefer to be wired, but have a fall back mesh mode. It doesn't add much latency, or lose much bandwidth. Furthermore, the access points seem to have FAR better range performance than most home kit. I had a situation where a "long range gaming" access point became unreliable after about 10m. The Unifi LR gets over 50m in the same environment.
Network over Power line adapters can also be useful, and can reduce the number of access points you need.
The other pro of this, you can map bad wifi signals with their app so know where to add another access point if needed. I've got solid concrete walls and have 3. One for downstairs, one for upstairs and one for the garden. I definitely don't need 3, I just didn't want any wifi black spots.
I would suggest to add those additional AP as soon as possible if going UniFi way, as adding more later might require to replace all units as we already saw multiple times with UniFi devices, as they are quick to deprecate old ones and make them not work with new ones.